ADVERTISEMENT.

SOME of my Friends having expressed a wish to see all the Sonnets that are scattered through several volumes of my Poems, brought under the eye at once; this is done in the present l'ublication, with a hope that a collection made to please a few, may not be unacceptable to many others. Twelve new ones are added which were composed while the sheets were going through the press.

My admiration of some of the Sonnets of Milton, first tempted me to write in that form. The fact is not mentioned from a notion that it will be deemed of any importance by the reader, but merely as a public acknowledgment of one of the innumerable obligations, which, as a Poet and a Man, I am under to our great fellow-countryman.

RYDAL MOUNT,'

May 21st, 1838.

There is a little unpretending Rill, 10

Her only pilot the soft breeze, 11

The fairest, brightest hues, 12

Upon the sight of a beautiful Picture, 13

"Why, Minstrel, these untuneful mur-

murings, 14

Aerial Rock-whose solitary brow, 15

To Sleep, 16

To Sleep, 17

To Sleep, 1

The Wild-duck's Nest, 19

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Composed on the Ere of the Marriage

of a Friend, 27

From the Italiau of Michael Angelo, 24

From the same, 29

From the same.

Being, 30.

Surprised by joy, 31

To the Supreme

Methought I saw the footsteps, 32

Even so for ine a Vision sanctified, 33

Air sleeps-from strife or.stir, 34

Compused at Castle, 35

Returning from a Tour in Scotland,

1803,36

Written upon a blank leaf in "The Where lies the Land, 37

Complete Angler," 20

To the Poet, John Dyer, 2!

On the detraction which followed the

publication of a certain Poem, 22

With Ships the sea was sprinkled.38

The world is too much with us, 39

A volant Tribe of Bards, 40

'Weak is the will of Man, 41